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Ken Coleman
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Ken Coleman
@HistoryLivesDet
Chronicling Black life in Detroit since 1991. [email protected] 313-551-1304 phone
Detroit, MI
Joined September 2016
- I wanted to shut down my social media activity for a period after my mother joined the ancestors yesterday. Just wanted to grieve. But I had a dream last night where she directed me to be strong and keep going with the posts. She loved my Detroit history contributions.
- NEW: @RepRashida (D-Det.) responded today to @MichiganAdvance's request for comment regarding Democratic criticism of her “From the river to the sea" X post. Tlaib: "My colleagues are much more focused on silencing me...than saving lives" in Gaza & West Bank. Full story coming.
- Moms are special. I love you Patsy Elmore! My mother joined the ancestors today. And, of course, my heart is heavy.
- Detroit @Tigers great Lou Whitaker turns 64 tomorrow (May 12). He still isn't in the baseball Hall of Fame and I have a problem with that.
- .@RepRashida tells @MichiganAdvance Wednesday: “I do not support targeting and killing of civilians, whether in Israel or Palestine. Fact that some have suggested otherwise is offensive and rooted in bigoted assumptions about my faith and ethnicity.” #IsraelPalestineConflict
- Black women in Detroit supporting @KamalaHarris for U.S. president. They are waiting to hear @RepMaxineWaters (D-Calif.) @MichiganAdvance reporting
- On this day in 1965: Viola Liuzzo is murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen while in Alabama to participate in Selma to Montgomery civil rights march.
- This one really hurts. I'm a 30+ year Detroit communicator who has covered crime as a reporter and worked to help address it as a government staff official. No question, like many of you, I've seen a lot in the Motor City. Candidly, though, I'm shook by this one.
- On this day in 1889: William Ferguson, a Black man, enters a Detroit restaurant. He is told “We cannot serve your kind of people here.” He will challenge policy in court. @MISupremeCourt will rule in 1890 that refusal was illegal. Ferguson will be elected to Mich. House in 1893.
- I'm old enough to remember 1982 when the Detroit Grand Prix was held on downtown streets. #DetroitGP
- THIS JUST IN: U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters today announce U.S. Dept. of Transportation will grant Michigan Dept. of Transportation $104M to "reconnect the neighborhoods destroyed" by I-375 in Detroit. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has a presser on the subject at 10 a.m.
- Southfield state House Democrat @KyraHBolden, if elected in November, would be the first Black woman to serve on the @MISupremeCourt.
